[U-Boot-Users] usage of git to send patches to u-boot mailinglist

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

In message <20080710002148.GD4657@prithivi.gnumonks.org> you wrote:
> 
> can do, even though I believe it is by far not the best tool to do so.

The definition of "the best tool" depends on many things, including
previous experience and personal preferences. 

> The problem is that I would have to use one local branch per feature
> (i.e. lots of local branches that need to be kept in sync), and even
> then any incremental changes/fixes to one particular feature are visible
> in the commitlog (and thus result in changelog pollution).

Having many local branches is no problem with git.

Git provides excellent help to rebase such branches, and using
"--interactive" gives you a lot of options to edit the history.

> So is this really the preferred workflow? How are others dealing with
> this?  How to avoid commitlog pollution?

I started using "git-rebase -i", and so far it seems to work fine for
me. But I'm definitely not an expert.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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